Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 476

AUDEMARS PIGUET - ROYAL OAK OFFSHORE CHRONOGRAPH Audemars Piguet, Genève, ?Royal Oak Offshore Automatic?, No. 932, case No. D 77193. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with rubberized chronograph buttons, registers, tachometer, date and a polished and brushed stainless steel Audemars Piguet bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak box and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, back secured by 8 screws, octagonal bezel secured by 8 bolts, protected screw-down rubber-coated winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Blued steel, central clous de Paris decoration with applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation to 500 UPH, cyclops aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2226/2840, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 45 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm.